That afternoon Elaine introduced me to a forensic accountant named Simon Park.

He was quiet, meticulous, and offended by arithmetic that refused to reconcile.

He began by making three columns on a whiteboard: what we knew, what we suspected, and what we needed someone with authority to obtain.

“People get into trouble when they confuse column two with column one,” he said.

We traced publicly available ownership records and the invoices I had lawfully retained.

Bluehaven appeared connected through a registered agent to two companies that received subcontractor payments from Whitmore Industrial Services.